USEF Safe Sport Training Test Questions
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Bullying ✔️✔️Repeated and/or severe aggressive behavior, directed at minors that is intended,
or likely to hurt, control, or diminish another person, emotionally, physically, or sexually.
Examples include:
ridiculing, taunting, name-calling, or intimidating someone.
Excluding or ignoring a member of team.
Cyber bullying:using social or electronic media to harass, frighten, intimidate, or humiliate
someone
Harassment ✔️✔️Repeated and/or severe conduct that causes fear, humiliation, or annoyance;
offends or degrades; creates a hostile environment; or flex discriminatory bias. Attempts to
establish dominance, superiority, or power over another person. Often occurs over issues of
race/ethnicities/culture, religion, Gender, identity, sexual orientation, physical, or mental
disability.
Examples: using racial slurs against a teammate.
Excluding a teammate based on a perceived difference.
Repeatedly teasing a teammate based on stereotypes
Hazing ✔️✔️Conduct that subjects and other person, physically or emotionally, to anything that
may endanger, abuse, humiliate, degrade, or intimidate the person as a condition of joining or
being accepted by a group. Differs from bullying; hazing is meant to bring someone into a
group, not exclude them
Example: requiring a teammate to drink excessive amounts of alcohol as a part of initiation.
Pummeling a teammate with punches to prove they are tough enough to be a part of the group
, Emotional Misconduct ✔️✔️Repeated and/or severe noncontact behavior involving verbal acts,
physical acts, and/or acts that deny attention or support, also includes stocking. Most often
occurs between a coach and athlete (rather than among peers)
example: repeatedly an excessively screaming at a player for a poor performance.
Routinely ignoring and refusing to coach player as punishment
Physical misconduct ✔️✔️Contact and noncontact violations that put an athletes, physical safety
or well-being at risk. Does not include well regulated forms of striking when a part of of a
combat sport.
Example: striking an athlete as punishment.
Forcing an injured athlete to continue playing without clearance from a medical professional.
Denying an athlete, adequate water or hydration
Long term signs of abuse ✔️✔️Poor self esteem
Trust issues
Anxiety
Feelings of isolation
Depression
Self-destruction
Sexual maladjustment
Substance abuse
More immediate signs of abuse ✔️✔️Loses enthusiasm for sport, even for competition
Doesn't want to practice, or skills out on practice without an explanation
Stops trying in practice or competition, perhaps in hopes of getting kicked off the team
Performance declines
and Answers
Bullying ✔️✔️Repeated and/or severe aggressive behavior, directed at minors that is intended,
or likely to hurt, control, or diminish another person, emotionally, physically, or sexually.
Examples include:
ridiculing, taunting, name-calling, or intimidating someone.
Excluding or ignoring a member of team.
Cyber bullying:using social or electronic media to harass, frighten, intimidate, or humiliate
someone
Harassment ✔️✔️Repeated and/or severe conduct that causes fear, humiliation, or annoyance;
offends or degrades; creates a hostile environment; or flex discriminatory bias. Attempts to
establish dominance, superiority, or power over another person. Often occurs over issues of
race/ethnicities/culture, religion, Gender, identity, sexual orientation, physical, or mental
disability.
Examples: using racial slurs against a teammate.
Excluding a teammate based on a perceived difference.
Repeatedly teasing a teammate based on stereotypes
Hazing ✔️✔️Conduct that subjects and other person, physically or emotionally, to anything that
may endanger, abuse, humiliate, degrade, or intimidate the person as a condition of joining or
being accepted by a group. Differs from bullying; hazing is meant to bring someone into a
group, not exclude them
Example: requiring a teammate to drink excessive amounts of alcohol as a part of initiation.
Pummeling a teammate with punches to prove they are tough enough to be a part of the group
, Emotional Misconduct ✔️✔️Repeated and/or severe noncontact behavior involving verbal acts,
physical acts, and/or acts that deny attention or support, also includes stocking. Most often
occurs between a coach and athlete (rather than among peers)
example: repeatedly an excessively screaming at a player for a poor performance.
Routinely ignoring and refusing to coach player as punishment
Physical misconduct ✔️✔️Contact and noncontact violations that put an athletes, physical safety
or well-being at risk. Does not include well regulated forms of striking when a part of of a
combat sport.
Example: striking an athlete as punishment.
Forcing an injured athlete to continue playing without clearance from a medical professional.
Denying an athlete, adequate water or hydration
Long term signs of abuse ✔️✔️Poor self esteem
Trust issues
Anxiety
Feelings of isolation
Depression
Self-destruction
Sexual maladjustment
Substance abuse
More immediate signs of abuse ✔️✔️Loses enthusiasm for sport, even for competition
Doesn't want to practice, or skills out on practice without an explanation
Stops trying in practice or competition, perhaps in hopes of getting kicked off the team
Performance declines
